12 Top contemporary books like All Girls by Emily Layden

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All Girls

By: Emily Layden

3.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England p…

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1. Maine

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.40

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradi… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And anyway, once you allowed yourself to picture such a scenario, it couldn't happen. That was just the way life went."

-J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine

"Vielleicht war das Bild, das die eigene Familie von einem hatte, zu sehr mit ihren Hoffnungen und Ängsten vermischt, als dass sie einen jemals wirklich als die Person sehen konnten, die man war."

-J. Courtney Sullivan, Maine

2. Good Lady Ducayne

By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.71

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Good Lady Ducayne book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • mystery
  • fiction
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3. Notice

By: Heather Lewis , None

3.94

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

As a young adult, she started to turn tricks in the parking lot of the local bar. Not because she n… read more

Similar categories in Heather Lewis's Notice book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Prep

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • boarding school
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Saints for All Occasions

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hop… read more

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6. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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7. Madam

By: Phoebe Wynne

3.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A darkly feminist, modern gothic tale pitched against a haunting backdrop, and populated by an elec… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Wynne's Madam book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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9. Body of Stars

By: Laura Maylene Walter

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of fate and female agency in a world very similar to our own--except that the markin… read more

Similar categories in Laura Maylene Walter's Body of Stars book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • literary fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We spend too much time either imagining the future, that vast expanse of unborn possibility, or else wandering the past, the land of the dead. And yet I return there, again and again, as if watching …"

-Laura Maylene Walter, Body of Stars

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10. Invisible Son

By: Kim Johnson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Library Binding

From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller… read more

Similar categories in Kim Johnson's Invisible Son book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. Phase Six

By: Jim Shepard

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard befo… read more

Similar categories in Jim Shepard's Phase Six book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"loneliness as solitude with self-pity thrown in."

-Jim Shepard, Phase Six

"Her [Valerie Landry's] mentor in med school had reminded her more than once that doctors got even less time than families had to deal with patients dying. Someone died and the relatives went off by t…"

-Jim Shepard, Phase Six

"In the U.S., whichever party was in power wasn't interested in support for public health. Public health never competed well for resources in either the House or the Senate. Countries were like people…"

-Jim Shepard, Phase Six

"It took a month after the breakup for her to realize that she was refusing to go anywhere that didn't have cell service on the off chance he'd call, and after that revelation she [Jeannine Dziri] fou…"

-Jim Shepard, Phase Six

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12. So Fetch

By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of th… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's So Fetch book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Sweet and Sour

By: Debbi Michiko Florence

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt middle-grade novel about ex-best friends, betrayals, and revenge that is best served so… read more

Similar categories in Debbi Michiko Florence's Sweet and Sour book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Are you blaming my mood on my period?" Zach's face flushed a deeper red. "I'm just saying you don't have to feel bad about it." "I don't feel bad! And, also, I didn't have my period when I first got …"

-Debbi Michiko Florence, Sweet and Sour

Cover of All Girls by Emily Layden

14. All Girls

By: Emily Layden

3.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England p… read more

Similar categories in Emily Layden's All Girls book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • boarding school
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Girl Like a Bomb by Autumn Christian

15. Girl Like a Bomb

By: Autumn Christian

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Autumn Christian's third novel is a dark journey of self-discovery.  An existential labyrinth of lo… read more

Similar categories in Autumn Christian's Girl Like a Bomb book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Raven's Tale by Cat Winters

16. The Raven's Tale

By: Cat Winters

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Edgar Poe counts down the days until he can escape his foster family—the wealthy… read more

Similar categories in Cat Winters's The Raven's Tale book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Yes," I saw, for my work is poetry, and I am most certainly paying attention."

-Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

"Yes," I say, for my work is poetry, and I am most certainly paying attention."

-Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

"The kindest thing you can do for the dead... is to weave their names into art."

-Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

"Stop treating me like I’m ignorant and delirious. I understand reality all too well—that’s the source of all my pain."

-Cat Winters, The Raven's Tale

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17. Mademoiselle Revolution

By: Zoe Sivak

3.54

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, engrossing story of a biracial heiress who escapes to Paris when the Haitian Revolution… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Sivak's Mademoiselle Revolution book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • adult
  • fiction
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18. Dad Camp

By: Evan S. Porter

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to “father-daughter … read more

Similar categories in Evan S. Porter's Dad Camp book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Teddy

By: Emily Dunlay

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lessons in Chemistry  meets  Mad Men  in this wildly entertaining debut novel, set in glamorous Rom… read more

Similar categories in Emily Dunlay's Teddy book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West

20. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

By: Cait West

4.14

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more

Similar categories in Cait West's Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy book and Emily Layden's All Girls

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21. Safe In My Arms

By: Sara Shepard

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The latest novel from Sara Shepard, author of Reputation and the #1 New York Times bestselling Pret… read more

Similar categories in Sara Shepard's Safe In My Arms book and Emily Layden's All Girls

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

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J. Courtney Sullivan

3.40

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

3.71

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Heather Lewis , None

3.94

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3.75

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The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

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Megan Nolan

3.74

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Madeline Cash

4.05

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